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On Wed, 16 May 2012 14:32:23 +0200
Niels de Vos <devos(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Hello,
in #gluster on Freenode, we discussed a little if GlusterFS is
allowed in EPEL-6. EPEL-5 is not affected as Red Hat does not provide
packages for GlusterFS on RHEL-5.
The policy that may forbid GlusterFS in EPEL-6:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#Policy
mentions "packages from EPEL should never replace packages from the
target base distribution - including those on the base distribution
as well as layered products".
The Red Hat Storage product that includes GlusterFS is like an
appliance. Customers who buy a subscription get access to a DVD
download of RHEL-6.2.z (Extended Update Support, EUS) with the
packages from an additional RHN-ChildChannel. It is not
possible/intended/supported to use this RHN-ChildChannel without
installing your system from the "Red Hat Storage" DVD. Therefore this
RHN-ChildChannel is a little different from other layered products.
The first time a Red Hat product that includes GlusterFS was released
in November 2011. EPEL-6 already contained the GlusterFS packages.
The EPEL-policy was not harmed, but now GlusterFS is made available
by Red Hat, and it is possible to have two sources for GlusterFS (one
being EPEL-6, the other through the Red Hat Storage ChildChannel).
The question I have now:
Is it needed to block the glusterfs package from EPEL-6? Even if most
RHEL users will not have access to EUS channel(s) that contain the
glusterfs packages?
So i think here its up to the gluster team what they want to do. For
instance Satellite has pulled in a bunch of EPEL packages and ship them
in satellite. things like cobbler, koan, perl modules and various other
bits and pieces. they pull them in with the intention of them remaining
in EPEL. I believe some of the other layered products do this also, I
think that something that ships in a layered product should be shipable
in EPEL but if the layered product asks us to remove it we should do
so. most/all layered products are only available with additional
subscriptions. which limits the availablity and AFAIK CentOS Scientific
Linux etc dont ship all layered products.
Dennis
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